As an interested person you would have to stand aside." "I don't understand." "The arbitrator would settle if you should go." Andrew looked blank.
"Go ?" he repeated.
"It is a euphemism for die," said his companion a little impatiently.
"This is a trivial matter, and hardly worth going into at any length.
It shows our process, however, and the process reveals the true character of the organization.

As I have already mentioned, the Society takes for its first principle the sanctity of human life.
Everyone who has mixed much among his fellow-creatures must be aware that this is adulterated, so to speak, by numbers of spurious existences.

Many of these are a nuisance to themselves.

Others may at an earlier period have been lives of great promise and fulfilment.

In the case of the latter, how sad to think that they should be dragged out into worthlessness or dishonour, all for want of a friendly hand to snap them short! In the lower form of life the process of preying upon animals whose work is accomplished--that is, of weeding--goes on continually.